Left or Right

This article/video was about the concept of "Left or Right" in film. They discuss how the different movements in film can express different feelings. Moving towards the camera shows assertiveness and dominance, while moving away shows weakness. Also characters being looked down upon seem weak while characters being looked up upon feel more dominant. But lateral movement is a lot less obvious. Movement going left to right often shows the progression of time, as we read left to right and in 2D video games, characters often move from left to right. An example of this would be in full metal jacket where the characters move from left to right in one shot and then right to left in the next. Stanley Kubrick deliberately did this to make it seem like the soldiers where moving around aimlessly. Another example is where soldiers moving into the war move left to right, while soldiers injured are moved from right to left as it seems they are going back home. Scientists even tested this by making a study group who perceived the same exact clip of going left to right more positively than the right to left. Even characters on the right side of the screen can be perceived more positively than the ones on the left.
I liked this article a lot. Staging in film is very fascinating to me. From what I've seen the director that does this best is Akra Kurosawa. I find it interesting to see what an viewer assumes by just looking at the screen. I will try to remember these when I work on my next project for sure.